What were the Top 10 best selling games in June 2015 in the United States?
The newest NPD numbers are in, and so are the top lists of the highest selling game systems and games for last month in America.
Here is the full Top 10 of June 2015:
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1. Batman: Arkham Knight (PS4, Xbox One, PC)**
2. The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited (Xbox One, PS4, PC)
3. Lego: Jurassic World (360, Xbox One, PS4, PS3, 3DS, Wii U, Vita)
4. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (PS4, Xbox One, PC)**
5. Splatoon (Wii U)**
6. Minecraft (360, PS3, Xbox One, PS4)
7. Grand Theft Auto V (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)**
8. Mortal Kombat X (PS4, Xbox One)**
9. NBA 2K15 (360, PS4, Xbox One, PS3, PC)**
10. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)**
** Includes: CE, GOTY editions, bundles, etc. but not those bundled with hardware. Physical retail copies only.
Here’s the Batman: Arkham Knight TV commercial…
System Sales in June 2015:
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1. PlayStation 4 — Stays on the #1 overall platform spot
2. Xbox One
3. Nintendo 3DS
4. Nintendo Wii U
5. Xbox 360
6. PlayStation 3
7. PlayStation Vita
Note: Only the first four spots are confirmed. The rest are estimates, no complete hard sales data was released for the month.
Check out the recent PlayStation 4 games sizzle reel…
Analysis of the game and hardware sales numbers:
Although NPD doesn’t by far track all digital sales, retail still gives a good impression of last month’s best selling video games.
To quote NPD industry analyst Liam Callahan…
About video games he said:
“This is the fourth month of year-over-year increases so far in 2015 for software. Through the first half of the year, software is up 3 percent. With a strong lineup of games for the remainder of the year, there is the potential for a positive growth in the second half of the year as well.
Sales of Batman: Arkham Knight slightly exceeded October 2011 sales of Batman: Arkham City, which is remarkable considering the difference in hardware install bases [of the PS4 and Xbox One compared to last-gen’s PS3 and Xbox 360]. If sales were included from hardware bundles, Batman: Arkham Knight is the best-selling game of 2015 so far.
With hits like Batman: Arkham Knight, The Witcher 3, Mortal Kombat X, and Dying Light, Warner Bros. Interactive is the top corporate publisher so far in 2015, with dollar sales growing 217 percent versus the first half of 2014.”
About hardware he said:
“Hardware sales grew by 8 percent overall. Eighth-generation consoles [like PS4 and Xbox One] are leading the way with 15 percent growth over June 2014, offsetting declines in seventh-generation and portable hardware sales.
Hardware sales have changed compared to last year. In June 2014, only 35 percent of all console sales were bundled with a game. That’s opposed to June 2015, where bundles made up 82 percent of all hardware sales.”
Credits: NeoGAF
For the first time in a long time the top 10 games seems like a battleground for all systems trying to get dominance! 🙂